19 March 2010 4:38 PM

Lady Gaga’s only streak of originality is in her outfits - her music is humdrum.

It doesn’t surprise me that Lady Gaga, the erstwhile Stefani Germanotta, may not be all she seems.

Don’t get me wrong - as a concept, she’s fantastic.

Her wonderfully creative stage (and offstage) costumes are admirably kooky. She looks exactly how I want a 21st century pop star to look.

All the best stars in pop history, from David Bowie to Bjork, knew that how they looked was part of the performance.

Their music was (and in Bjork’s case at least, still is) an extension of the extravagant personae they developed. They made groundbreaking, scintillating pop music that reflected their creativity.

But Lady Gaga is only half the package. Her music is drab, four-square, no frills, no thrills, pop-dance and is indebted to the cheesier end of Eighties pop.
Her debut album, The Fame, has more in common with the duller end of Britney Spears’ oeuvre than with anything genuinely exciting or new.

It’s almost as if people are buying her image rather than her music.

Rob Fusari, who’s suing Gaga for £20m, would probably do well do keep quiet. Even if he did help establish her image, he still claims to have co-written some of her hits.

A word to the wise, Rob - without Gaga’s magnificently silly clothes nobody would give a damn about your songs.

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